Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-25 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Marek, On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:30:17 +0100 GMT (24/12/2008, 08:30 +0700 GMT), Marek Mikus wrote: MM as I expect, there will be minor version updates yet, but AFAIK MM IMAP is no the way. ^^? Just out of curiosity: Did you mean to write not the way, or now the way? -- Cheers,

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-25 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Jens, On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:26:02 +0100 GMT (24/12/2008, 20:26 +0700 GMT), Jens Franik wrote: JF And maybe it is time to think about, if you could split The_Bat into JF modules - if you do not need calender, could you choose to unselect it JF in the install? I'm all in favour of

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-25 Thread Volker Ahrendt
[Reply to: »Thomas Fernandez« · 2008-12-25 · 17:10 h (CET)] Moin, Thomas! MM as I expect, there will be minor version updates yet, but AFAIK MM IMAP is no the way. ^^? Just out of curiosity: Did you mean to write not the way, or now the way? I guess IMAP is on the way. :-)

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-25 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Thursday, December 25, 2008, Volker Ahrendt wrote: MM as I expect, there will be minor version updates yet, but AFAIK MM IMAP is no the way. ^^? Just out of curiosity: Did you mean to write not the way, or now the way? I guess IMAP is on the way. thank You Volker

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-24 Thread Jens Franik
Mittwoch, 24. Dezember 2008 at 02:28, Marek Mikus wrote: RSS is very popular for home users and in many reviews I saw, internal RSS support is con for The Bat!. But I agree, Calendar should be focused before There are a lot of RSS Readers which are based on Java and availiable on many

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-24 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Wednesday, December 24, 2008, Jens Franik wrote: There are a lot of RSS Readers which are based on Java and availiable on many platforms - there for. maybe, but many users do like Java-based apps, I must say, I do not like them too. And maybe it is time to think about, if you

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-23 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Wednesday, December 24, 2008, Peter Ouwehand wrote: MM I do not expect, such feature will be yet implemented, there are MM more important features like calendar or internal RSS support. Uh? What is important about internal RSS support? Please first supply IMAP and calendar

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-23 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Wednesday, December 24, 2008, Peter Ouwehand wrote: MM developers wrote, new implementation of IMAP will be integrated after 4.1 MM release, because it uses new index file format introduced now, so stay MM tuned. Assuming RIT wrote after 4.1 release, then we still don't know much.

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-17 Thread Volker Ahrendt
[Reply to: »Arjan de Groot« · 2008-12-17 · 03:01 h (CET)] Moin, Arjan! We are ALL customers who VOLUNTEERED to beta test I guess yelling up and running in reply to any of the frequent Alfa-, Beta-, RC- or whatever version announcements, or answering questions of even more d*m***t*d The Beta!

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-17 Thread Eddie Castelli
Dear Rick, -- Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2008, 05:30:01: Are you insinuating that they don't appreciate my well crafted up and running postings? I work hard on those! I'm sure Ritlabs are thrilled to bits by your revelatory communications, but alas they won't get you a free ride. What can

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-17 Thread Arjan de Groot
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:57:31 +0100, Jens Franik wrote: developers wrote, new implementation of IMAP will be integrated after 4.1 release, because it uses new index file format introduced now, so stay tuned. Marek, i tried to use IMAP, but it did not work recently. If this is to become true in a

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-17 Thread Jens Franik
am Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2008 um 20:43 schrieb Hans Stam: Pegasus Mail has a very nice, FREE, 4.51 version. The internation Version is 4.41 Pegasus sometimes ago has been a very sober Mailclient. I think the main difference is that professional Users would like to have the features of The-Bat

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-17 Thread Jens Franik
am Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2008 um 21:08 schrieb Marek Mikus: IMAP implementation? developers wrote, new implementation of IMAP will be integrated after 4.1 release, because it uses new index file format introduced now, so stay tuned. Marek, i tried to use IMAP, but it did not work

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-17 Thread Arjan de Groot
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:06:24 +0200, Eddie Castelli wrote: What can I say? I have become a Ritlabs automaton. [] No you have become a BAT!holic. UR is just the same RITual as, let's say, skoal with a good glass of wine. [] Yes, Bat!holicism is like religion. Pray with me: Hail Ritlabs, full of

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-17 Thread Jens Franik
am Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2008 um 20:58 schrieb Hans Stam: Not agree, besides that, the program has also RSS and newsgroups.. You never tried out Blogbridge and RSSowl - this is what i think of a suitable RSS Reader... -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Jens Franik mailto:je...@gmx.de Picture of me?

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-17 Thread Jens Franik
am Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2008 um 11:41 schrieb Arjan de Groot: Yes, Bat!holicism is like religion. Pray with me You SHOULD stop now, this is going to be nearly blasphemy. Could the Moderators please think about some actions? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Jens Franik mailto:je...@gmx.de

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Sebastian Murawski
Hello TheBat Beta List Members!!! Someday, and that was in Monday evening, Volker wrote something like this: 4. 0.x is not supported anymore too. do not understand, what You mean by not supported, latest bugfix for 4.0.x was released three weeks ago. Yes. But there will be no butfixes

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Alto Speckhardt
Hi Christian, Why the HELL do you guys think i should pay for an upgrade to 4.x when not even half the bugs have been fixed from 3.x?? Well, interface got a slight makeover, hasn't it? Makes it a little harder to read and wastes a little more screen space than before, but it's

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Jens Franik
am Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2008 um 10:08 schrieb Gunivortus Goos: My problem with The Bat! there isn't an Open Source alternative yet Thats not true, i take a look at Thunderbird with Lightning and is has all basic Features which The_Bat has, at least with extensions. I did tell very often

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Robert Tomanek
Hello Volker, Monday, December 15, 2008, 10:25:59 PM, you wrote: 4.0.x is not supported anymore too. do not understand, what You mean by not supported, latest bugfix for 4.0.x was released three weeks ago. Yes. But there will be no butfixes further. Are there any known *showstoppers* for

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Robert Tomanek
Hi, Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 1:00:25 PM, you wrote: What I really expect/want - ROADMAP. I second that. -- Best regards, Robert Tomanekmailto:tbb...@mail.robert.tomanek.org Current beta is 4.1.1.5 |

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Volker Ahrendt
[Reply to: »Sebastian Murawski« · 2008-12-16 · 09:17 h (CET)] Moin, Sebastian! 4. 0.x is not supported anymore too. do not understand, what You mean by not supported, latest bugfix for 4.0.x was released three weeks ago. Yes. But there will be no butfixes further. Are there any known

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Sebastian Murawski
Hello TheBat Beta List Members!!! Someday, and that was in Tuesday morning, Volker wrote something like this: Yes. But there will be no butfixes further. Are there any known *showstoppers* for that release cycle? I really cannot remember one … Maybe: I think you got me wrong: All the

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread MAU
Hello Robert, What I really expect/want - ROADMAP. I second that. Isn't Google Maps good enough? ;-) -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v4.1.1.5 RC1 (BETA) on Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 3

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Stam
NO WAY! Of course not. Since the TheBat developement desaster has been established (and this tragedy has been going on for years, let noone say there were no warnings) I've been transitioning the clients I service away from TheBat, some towards free alternatives like ThunderBird, some to

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Mackley
Hans... PocoMail is a very bad copy of TheBat! with a very ugly interface... :-( -- Mackley who tries every client mailreader for PC Windows ! Current beta is 4.1.1.6 | 'Using TBBETA' information:

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Stam
Hans... PocoMail is a very bad copy of TheBat! with a very ugly interface... :-( Not agree, besides that, the program has also RSS and newsgroups.. -- Mackley who tries every client mailreader for PC Windows ! Current

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Volker Ahrendt
[Reply to: »Hans Stam« · 2008-12-16 · 20:43 h (CET)] Moin, Hans! Of course not. Since the TheBat developement desaster has been established (and this tragedy has been going on for years, let noone say there were no warnings) I've been transitioning the clients I service away from TheBat,

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Tuesday, December 16, 2008, Hans Stam wrote: Pegasus Mail has a very nice, FREE, 4.51 version. http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/11243/download.aspx As a registered user of The Bat! I read all the discussions here about pay or not pay for a new update, remember: Pegasus

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Tuesday, December 16, 2008, Hans Stam wrote: Hans... PocoMail is a very bad copy of TheBat! with a very ugly interface... :-( Not agree, besides that, the program has also RSS and newsgroups.. who uses newsgroups today? I have used them since 1999, but for today, this is a dead

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Tuesday, December 16, 2008, Robert Tomanek wrote: Something resembling a proper IMAP implementation? In other words, a promise that has been made and broken, several times? developers wrote, new implementation of IMAP will be integrated after 4.1 release, because it uses new index

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread George M. Menegakis
Hello Hans, Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 9:58:10 PM, you wrote: Not agree, besides that, the program has also RSS and newsgroups.. ...which both could be implemented via plugins. I read and post usenet news using The Bat (though I am also user of Forte Agent and beta tester of it) I could

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Robert Tomanek
Hello Marek, Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 9:07:03 PM, you wrote: who uses newsgroups today? I have used them since 1999, but for today, this is a dead service. I do. As do many people. BTW newsgroups can be integrated to The Bat! bia external utility. Agreed. And, this is not a priority

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Tuesday, December 16, 2008, Robert Tomanek wrote: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 9:07:03 PM, you wrote: who uses newsgroups today? I have used them since 1999, but for today, this is a dead service. I do. As do many people. and for which purpose, if I can ask? BTW newsgroups can

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Dwight A Corrin
On Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 1:58:10 PM, Hans Stam wrote: Not agree, besides that, the program has also RSS and newsgroups.. My Swiss Army Knife has a corkscrew. -- Dwight A. Corrin 316.303.9385 phone ahead to fax dcorrin at fastmail.fm photo galleries at http://dcorrin.smugmug.com photo

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Peter Meyns
Hi Volker, on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:16:43 +0100GMT (16.12.2008, 11:16 +0100GMT here), you wrote: VA ... All the bugs listed below (except the two UTF-7 bugs in IMAP VA and two minor bugs) *are* fixed in the 4.0.x release cycle, i.e. VA with a 4.0.39.39 all these bugs are fixed and you do not need

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Roman Mülchen
Hallo Christian, I don't get the point why all the Beta Testers have to renew anything. Ich read this E-Mail-List, I test and evaluate this software, I take some time to answer questions or to ask some... why do I have to pay? -- Gruß Roman

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Rick
Hallo Christian, I don't get the point why all the Beta Testers have to renew anything. Ich read this E-Mail-List, I test and evaluate this software, I take some time to answer questions or to ask some... why do I have to pay? We are ALL customers who VOLUNTEERED to beta test -- Rick

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Doug Weller
Hi Mackley, Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 7:47:01 PM, you wrote: Hans... PocoMail is a very bad copy of TheBat! with a very ugly interface... :-( And the last time I tried it, couldn't cope with hundreds of thousands of emails and search. Doug -- Doug Weller Moderator,

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Rick
Hi Mackley, Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 7:47:01 PM, you wrote: Hans... PocoMail is a very bad copy of TheBat! with a very ugly interface... :-( And the last time I tried it, couldn't cope with hundreds of thousands of emails and search. I tried POco and it has a slick interface but if

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Arjan de Groot
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:25:01 -0500, Rick wrote: Ich read this E-Mail-List, I test and evaluate this software, I take some time to answer questions or to ask some... why do I have to pay? We are ALL customers who VOLUNTEERED to beta test I guess yelling up and running in reply to any of the

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Rick
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:25:01 -0500, Rick wrote: Ich read this E-Mail-List, I test and evaluate this software, I take some time to answer questions or to ask some... why do I have to pay? We are ALL customers who VOLUNTEERED to beta test I guess yelling up and running in reply to any of the

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Arjan de Groot
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:13:32 -0500, Rick wrote: Are you insinuating that they don't appreciate my well crafted up and running postings? I work hard on those! I'm sure Ritlabs are thrilled to bits by your revelatory communications, but alas they won't get you a free ride. Arjan -- [Non-text

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Rick
Are you insinuating that they don't appreciate my well crafted up and running postings? I work hard on those! I'm sure Ritlabs are thrilled to bits by your revelatory communications, but alas they won't get you a free ride. What can I say? I have become a Ritlabs automaton. They say PAY! and

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-16 Thread Peter Fjelsten
Marek, On 16-12-2008 21:08, you wrote in mid:46439853.20081216210...@ipex.cz: Something resembling a proper IMAP implementation? In other words, a promise that has been made and broken, several times? developers wrote, new implementation of IMAP will be integrated after 4.1 release,

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Rick
Once again Ritlabs has done it again. This is the last straw and the last email i will send with TB! Very sad since i have used it (registered / licensed) since 1.x. But enough is enough! Why the HELL do you guys think i should pay for an upgrade to 4.x when not even half the bugs

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread MAU
Hello Christian, Why the HELL do you guys think i should pay for an upgrade to 4.x when not even half the bugs have been fixed from 3.x?? And since the functionality / design / usage / etc. is still 3.x - this is ridiculous to call this version 4.x - just because you need

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Rick
Hi MAU, Monday, December 15, 2008, 9:02:41 AM, you wrote: Hello Christian, Why the HELL do you guys think i should pay for an upgrade to 4.x when not even half the bugs have been fixed from 3.x?? And since the functionality / design / usage / etc. is still 3.x - this is

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Monday, December 15, 2008, Christian Grams wrote: Once again Ritlabs has done it again. This is the last straw and the last email i will send with TB! Very sad since i have used it (registered / licensed) since 1.x. But enough is enough! Why the HELL do you guys think i

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread MAU
Hello Bob, I agree that Christian went a bit overboard in his frustration, and I had questions about the upgrade myself (considering that I renewed my license in 21 November 2007, thinking it would be valid into version 4.1, and it wasn't - although that was clarified in the February 2008

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Christian Grams
Guten Tag MAU, am Montag, 15. Dezember 2008 um 19:46 schrieben Sie: Hello Bob, I agree that Christian went a bit overboard in his frustration, and I had questions about the upgrade myself (considering that I renewed my license in 21 November 2007, thinking it would be valid into version

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Vilius Šumskas
Sveiki, Monday, December 15, 2008, 7:36:30 PM, you wrote: Hello all, Monday, December 15, 2008, Christian Grams wrote: Once again Ritlabs has done it again. This is the last straw and the last email i will send with TB! Very sad since i have used it (registered / licensed) since 1.x.

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread George M. Menegakis
Hello Christian, Monday, December 15, 2008, 5:09:24 PM, you wrote: Once again Ritlabs has done it again. This is the last straw and the last email i will send with TB! Very sad since i have used it (registered / licensed) since 1.x. But enough is enough! Why the HELL do you guys think

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread MAU
Hello Bob, If one is extremely self-controlled and thoughtful, including having good genes and good parenting and a regular spiritual life, having relatively low life stress, and/or having a fundamentally holistic view of people, yes. All those fancy words and phrasing just to say grown up?

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread MAU
Hello Vilius, But I think he was referring to that nothing changed in those 4 years. That's not true. Splash screen has changed a few times. ;-) He can't use 3.x anymore because it's still buggy and not supported. ,- [ From the License Agreement (that document no one ever reads) ] | |

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread MAU
Hello Christian, One can 'ventilate' disagreement (even strong disagreement) and frustration with a little more respect for people working very very hard to earn an honest living. Don't you think so? Of course you can, but you can also show respect to paying customers. Please see my

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Monday, December 15, 2008, Vilius Šumskas wrote: You are right. But I think he was referring to that nothing changed in those 4 years. Version 3.x and 4.x differs only in bug fixed and some changed glyphs. He can't use 3.x anymore because it's still buggy and not supported.

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Christian Grams
You are right. But I think he was referring to that nothing changed in those 4 years. Version 3.x and 4.x differs only in bug fixed and some changed glyphs. He can't use 3.x anymore because it's still buggy and not supported. At the same time he don't want to pay for bug fixes that

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Vilius Šumskas
Sveiki, Monday, December 15, 2008, 10:48:27 PM, you wrote: He can't use 3.x anymore because it's still buggy and not supported. ,- [ From the License Agreement (that document no one ever reads) ] | .. `- BTW, quite similar wording to License Agreements of many other software I

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Vilius Šumskas
Sveiki, Monday, December 15, 2008, 10:53:55 PM, you wrote: Hello all, Monday, December 15, 2008, Vilius Šumskas wrote: You are right. But I think he was referring to that nothing changed in those 4 years. Version 3.x and 4.x differs only in bug fixed and some changed glyphs. He

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Monday, December 15, 2008, Vilius Šumskas wrote: 4.0.x is not supported anymore too. do not understand, what You mean by not supported, latest bugfix for 4.0.x was released three weeks ago. -- Bye Marek Mikus Czech support of The Bat! http://www.thebat.cz Using the best The Bat!

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Vilius Šumskas
Sveiki, Monday, December 15, 2008, 11:10:17 PM, you wrote: Hello all, Monday, December 15, 2008, Vilius Šumskas wrote: 4.0.x is not supported anymore too. do not understand, what You mean by not supported, latest bugfix for 4.0.x was released three weeks ago. Yes. But there will be no

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Monday, December 15, 2008, Vilius Šumskas wrote: Well, legally RitLabs maybe right. But in any business you should pay respect to clients, e.g. supporting old version and fixing critical bugs at least for some time after next major version is released. Or change

Re: Registration - v4.x

2008-12-15 Thread Volker Ahrendt
[Reply to: »Vilius Šumskas« · 2008-12-15 · 22:14 h (CET)] Moin, Vilius! 4.0.x is not supported anymore too. do not understand, what You mean by not supported, latest bugfix for 4.0.x was released three weeks ago. Yes. But there will be no butfixes further. Are there any known